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Out of the Past
- Director: Jeffrey Dupre
- Writer: Michelle Ferrari
- Producer: Eliza Byard; Jeffrey Dupre
CGiii Comment
Interesting - but, alas, it's all been done before...
More soundbites, more perspectives - and they are all the same as all the others...
This adds to the increasing catalogue of how fucked-up America was, is and will, hopefully not, always be.
Does this film make a difference? Sadly no.
BUT...it does serve to remind us of the unsung, forgotten heroes - of equality.
A deep-felt thank-you to them all.
There was a trailer...but, it has since disappeared.
The(ir) Blurb...
In 1995, Kelli Peterson started a gay and straight club at her Salt Lake City high school. The story of her ensuing battle with school authorities in interspersed with looks back at the diary of Michael Wigglesworth, a 17th-century Puritan cleric, at the 30-year love affair of Sarah Orne Jewett and Annie Adams Fields, at Henry Gerber's attempt after World War I to establish a gay-rights organization, at Bayard Rustin's role in the civil rights movement, and at Barbara Gittings' taking on of the American Psychiatric Association's position that homosexuality is illness. One person comments, "To create a place for ourselves in the present, we have to find ourselves in the past."
Cast & Characters
Gwyneth Paltrow as Sarah Orne Jewett;
Cherry Jones as Annie Adams Fields;
Edward Norton as Henry Gerber;
Leland Gantt as Bayard Rustin;
Annie Fields as Herself;
Barbara Gittings as Herself; Rev.
Peter J. Gomes as Himself;
Linda Hunt as Narrator;
Sarah Orne Jewett as Herself;
Kelli Peterson as Herself;
Bayard Rustin as Himself